Multiple story building



April 1970 A. E. Q. VAN HEZIK 3,507,080

MULTIPLE STORY BUILDING Filed March 6, 1968 I I i BY i/ 7' I 03015? United States Patent 3,507,080 MULTIPLE STORY BUILDING Adrianus E. Q. van Hezik, Staringstraat 11, Nijmegen, Netherlands Continuation-impart of application Ser. No. 458,103,

May 24, 1965. This application Mar. 6, 1968, Ser.

Int. Cl. E04b 1/348; E04b 1/04 US. Cl. 52-79 2 :Claims ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE A multi-story building has at the level of each story only at the fore-front and the back-front of the building horizontal longitudinal beams of angular section for serving as balconies or galleries, said beams being connected to each other by vertical transverse walls carrying removable supports for supporting prefabricated box-shaped blocks each constituting a home unit,

Cross-reference to related application This application is a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 458,103, filed May 24, 1965, and now abandoned.

Background of invention This invention relates to a multi-story building having at the level of each story horizontal longitudinal beams, prefabricated box-shaped blocks being placed in the skeleton of the building and said blocks each constitute a home unit. With known buildings of this kind the skeleton has a number of longitudinal beams extending parallel at the fore-front and the back-front of the building and onto which box-shaped blocks, each constituting an individual home unit, are supported. With said construction of the skeleton it is required to bring the blocks on their place through the openings in the fore-front or back-front, so that the fronts can be completed only after placing the blocks.

Summary of invention According to the invention, in a building of the foregoing type, the fronts can be completed before the blocks are placed in the skeleton. The horizontal longitudinal beams are provided only at the fore-front and the backfront of the building and are of angular section for serving as balconies or galleries, the front and rear horizontal longitudinal beams being connected to each other by vertical transverse walls carrying removable supports for supporting the home units. With said construction the boxshaped blocks can be placed in the skeleton from above and to this end the supports can be removed. The angular section of the longitudinal beams and the provision of vertical transverse walls is required for sufliciently stiffening the skeleton.

Brief description of drawing The invention will be further described with reference to the accompanying drawing, in which:

FIG. 1 is a vertical sectional view of an embodiment "of the skeleton according to the invention with a number of home units placed therein and taken on line I-I in FIG. 2.

FIG. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of part of the skeleton taken on line II-II in FIG. 1.

FIG. 3 is a horizontal section of part of the skeleton taken on line III--III in FIG. 1.

FIG. 4 is an enlarged fragmentary cross section of a removable bar-like support for a home unit, and which fits in an opening of a transverse wall and projects at both sides of the wall.

Detailed description of invention The skeleton shown in the drawing consists of a number of vertical transverse Walls 1 connected to each other by means of horizontal beams 2 and 2' of angular section. The beams 2 are disposed in spaced vertical registry adjacent the rear edges of the vertical Walls 1 while the beams 2 are disposed in spaced vertical registry adjacent the front edges of the vertical walls 1. Thus, the inner surfaces of adjacent vertical walls 1 and corresponding inner surface portions of the beams 2 and 2 bound and define open-topped vertical wells within which a plurality of dwelling units 3 may be placed. The hoisting apparatus 4 may be used to raise and lower the dwelling units 3 and position them within each well and as is shown in FIG- URE 4, the dwelling units are supported on removable supports 5 which are received within holes in the vertical walls' 1. The supports 5 are arranged in tiers which are vertically spaced, each tier comprising a plurality of the supports disposed in a common horizontal plane. Casings 6 for the main conduits may be formed at the transverse walls 1. The longitudinal beams 2 and 2' are formed into balconies or galleries. The beams 2 and 2' are of angular cross section so that each presents a horizontal floor portion 7 and an upstanding rail portion 8, the floor portions of corresponding pairs of the beams 2 and 2 being coplanar and positioned, with respect to the tiers of supports 5, in alignment with the lower portions of the dwelling units 3. Further stair case wells and lift-shafts may be formed at the transverse walls 1.

As the blocks 3 are not in direct contact with each other and with the balconies or galleries 2, noise cannot be transmitted from one block to adjacent blocks. The individual home units may have a depth of 30 ft., a width of 15 ft. or 30 ft. and a height of 10 ft. or 20 ft. The skeleton consisting of concrete may have a height of e.g. 60 ft. or 240 ft., so that the building may contain different numbers of stories.

Modular building assemblies of the type generally described herein have been used previously. However, the prior proposals have involved the formation of openings 1n the building walls through which the modular dwelling units are displaced horizontally. With such constructions, the exterior finish of the building may not be completed until after the dwelling units are placed in position.

According to the present invention, the walls 1 and beams 2, 2 define vertical wells and the dwelling units 3 are of smaller plan dimensions than these wells so that the dwelling units may be placed in position at any time and do not in any way interfere with the work involved in exteriorly finishing the building. The dwelling units, being supported solely on the supports 5 out of direct contact with each other or with the beams 2, 2', are well isolated accoustically. The beams 2, 2' not only afford balcony constructions for the dwelling units, but they as well provide exterior scaffolding during the actual construction of the building.

What I claim is:

1. A multiple story building comprising, in combination,

a skeleton structure comprising a plurality of vertical walls disposed in spaced parallelism and extending from the front to the rear of the building, a plurality of first horizontal beams connecting said vertica walls and being disposed in spaced vertical registry adjacent the front edges of said vertical walls, and a plurality of second horizontal beams connecting said vertical walls and being disposed in spaced Ver tical registry adjacent the rear edges of said vertical walls, whereby the skeleton presents at least a pair of open-topped vertical wells, each bounded by the inner surfaces of adjacent vertical walls and corresponding inner surface portions of said first and second horizontal beams,

a plurality of tiers of supports in each well, the, tiers being disposed in vertical spaced relation, each tier comprising a plurality of supports carried by the vertical walls of each well and disposed in a common horizontal plane, the supports projecting into their associated well to a distance very much less than the spacing between adjacent vertical walls so that said supports may be positioned and located after completion of the skeleton structure, and

an individual dwelling unit supported on each tier of supports, each dwelling unit being shaped in plan view similarly to but slightly smaller than the plan shape of its associated well so that the dwelling units are in contact only with said supports and may be positioned within the skeleton structure by introduction and lowering through the open top of their associated wells,

the heights of said dwelling units being less than the vertical spacing between adjacent tiers of supports whereby the dwelling units are isolated from direct contact with each other,

said first and second horizontal beams presenting horizontal floor portions, said floor portions of corresponding pairs of first and second horizontal beams being coplanar and positioned, with respect to said tiers of supports, in alignment with the lower portions of said dwelling units.

2. A multiple story building comprising, in combination,

a skeleton structure comprising a plurality of vertical walls disposed in spaced parallelism and extending from the front to the rear of the building, a plurality of first horizontal beams connecting said vertical walls and being disposed in spaced vertical registry adjacent the front edges of said vertical walls, and a plurality of second horizontal beams connecting said vertical walls and being disposed in spaced vertical registry adjacent the rear edges of said vertical walls, whereby the skeleton presents at least a pair of open-topped verticalwells, each bounded by adjacent vertical walls and corresponding portions of said first and second horizontal beams,

a plurality of tiers of supports in each well, the tiers being disposed in vertical spaced relation, each tier comprising a plurality of supports carried by the vertical walls of each well and disposed in a common horizontal plane, the supports projecting into their associated well to a distance very much less than the spacing between adjacent vertical walls so that said supports may be positioned and located after completion of the skeleton structure, and an individual dwelling unit supported on each tier of supports, each dwelling unit being shaped in plan view similarly to but slightly smaller than the plan shape of its associated well so that the dwelling units are in contact only with said supports and may be positioned within the skeleton structure by introduction and lowering through the open top of their associated wells, the heights of said dwelling units being less than the vertical spacing between adjacent tiers of supports whereby the dwelling units are isolated from direct contact with each other, said first and second horizontal beams being of angular cross section presenting horizontal floor portions and upstanding rail portions, said floor portions of corresponding pairs of first and second horizontal beams being coplanar and positioned, with respect to said tiers of supports, in alignment with the lower portions of said dwelling units.

References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 3/1950 Hammond 52--23-6 X FOREIGN PATENTS 8/1961 Canada. 7/1961 France.

FRANK L. ABBOTT, Primary Examiner P. C. FAW, JR., Assistant Examiner U.S. Cl. X.R.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE CERTIFICATE OF CORRECTION Patent No. 3,507,080 April 21, 1970 Adrianus E. Q. van Hezik It is certified that error appears in the above identified patent and that said Letters Patent are hereby corrected as shown below:

In the heading to the printed specification, line 7, "729,097" should read 728,097

Signed and sealed this 10th day of November 1970.

(SEAL) Attest:

WILLIAM E. SCHUYLER, JR.

Edward M. Fletcher, Jr.

Attesting Officer Commissioner of Patents 

